How to Add Alt and Title Tags to Images? – Blogger/Blogspot SEO

If you have a photography blog or a travel blog, in which you share and publish your photos. Then it is very important to do SEO for pictures and photographs. Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex search engines have specific rules to show your images in the search results. By doing the SEO for images you have a chance to increase your readers from search engines.

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Do image SEO by alt and title tags

It is really simple to do SEO for images. Blogger has this feature by default. You just have to use alt and title tags for all images i.e. declare the alt and title attributes. This option is not known to new bloggers and they are missing the chance to improve search engine rankings. For this, you have to define the image properties.

What are alt and title tags?

alt – In this attribute, we define the alternative information for the image. It is very important when due to some reasons image does not load then the alternative text appears.

title – In this attribute, we define the title of the image which is a short description and appear when you hover your mouse over the image.

How to add Alt and Title tags for images?

When you upload an image to a blog post in Compose mode. After successful upload of an image to the blog post, you have to do a left click on the image. Now a light blue color strip appears and when you click on Properties, a new popup or nag screen appears as given below and two options are available, first is TITLE text and second is ALT text. In TITLE text box you can fill the title of the image and in ALT text box you can fill the alternative text for the image.

In short –

Post EditorUpload Image › Switch to Compose ViewClick on Image › Select Properties to link › Pop-Up box › Fill TITLE and ALT text › Click OK

Blog Image Properties

Now if you switch to HTML mode of post editor then you can find title and alt image tags have been added to the image code.

13 thoughts on “How to Add Alt and Title Tags to Images? – Blogger/Blogspot SEO”

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    Vishal Rathod

    Once again a wonderful guide Vinay. I have been doing this what is mentioned in your post .Thanks for sharing its importance.

  2. Very informative, I will start to give my image title because I don’t normally do it before, I just upload it into my post and then leave it

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    Bidhan Parajuli

    Great article . I have been applying the steps you told and I am seeing better results in my blog . Many thanks .

  4. Great Post,
    I’m using alt and title tags, but my blog not ranking a long time.
    Can you help me, sir?

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